Posts Tagged ‘blog’

Beginners Guide to WordPress Plugins

January 14, 2008 | Filed under: Tutorials

One of the biggest advantages of using WordPress is the ability to use plugins to expand the capabilities of your blog or website. Since WordPress has such a large community of plugin developers, it means that you can make your WordPress website do pretty much anything you want it to. If you’ve ever thought about a feature that you wanted in WordPress, chances are that if you look around, you’ll find someone who has created a plugin to integrate that feature.

The problem is that many people don’t know how to go about installing plugin or think they are not technologically inclined enough to be able to. But these days most of the plugins available for WordPress only require one or two steps to get working so anyone can do it.

If you read my other tutorial about Upgrading WordPress then you will be familiar with the basics. You will need an FTP client to connect to your web space. If your host used cPanel, you can also use the file manager and upload plugins from there. Most plugins are installed in the same place, a folder called ‘plugins’ inside the wp-content directory.

To activate or deactivate a plugin, you just need to log into your WP admin and find Plugins in the top menu. This page lists all installed plugins.

The really great thing about the newest version of WordPress is that it will keep track of most of your plugins and let you know if they need to be updated.

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Open for Business

January 4, 2008 | Filed under: News

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We had a nice (albeit busy) break ourselves, but it’s back to business as usual now.

You may have noticed (unless you are reading from the comforts of your feedreader, in which case click on over!) that we have completely redesigned our website. The redesign included completely starting from scratch with our portfolio and blog. Both are now more easily browseable, with much more info available about our projects. Plus the site as a whole is a bit lighter and speedier than it used to be.

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Happy Holidays!

December 18, 2007 | Filed under: News

We’d like to wish everyone, especially all of our wonderful clients, happy holidays and a fantastic new year!

We’re going on vacation here starting December 19th until January 2nd. This is a general notice, not specific to each designer, so if you are a current client wondering about your project timeline, you’ll need to ask your designer her specific vacation period. It does mean we won’t be taking new inquiries, though. Feel free to write in if you would like to get in line (we WILL have many openings for Jan.), but your inquiry will not be answered … Continue reading »